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OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate
The Big Smoke, 11 December 2014, by Richard Jackson OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate Richard Jackson attended the launch by The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) of a database it hopes will help combat online hate. On Tuesday night the B’nai B’rith Centre, a Jewish organisation based in Darlinghurst, celebrated the…
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Hitting back against hate
Mx Newspaper, 9 December 2014, Hitting back against hate Web users are being armed with a new weapon in the war against online hate. Melbourne-based charity The Online Hate Prevention Institute will launch a tool tonight at ohpi.org.au that can be used to report, log and track online hate. Fight Against Hate uses crowd-sourcing to…
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The Independence Day Raids: A tale of love, war and rape
July 6, 2014, The Independence Day Raids: A tale of love, war and rape (blog post on 4chan). A Day on Tumblr (blog). Hello everyone it’s good to be back. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, real life gets in the way of everyone at some point and I decided to leave my…
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Racial Violence allowed on Facebook
June 18, 2014: Expo Today (Swedish Media) mentioned OHPI in an article on how Facebook allows incitement to racial violence go unchecked on its platform. http://expo.se/2014/uppmaningar-till-rasistiskt-vald-tillats-av-facebook_6550.html Facebook group “We who do not want to party with immigrants” do not violate Facebook’s “community rules”. That answer got a user who responded to the group which calls for…
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The dark side of the net
June 8, 2014: Chris Johnston, The Dark Side of the Internet, www.theage.com.au (Fairfax Media), http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-dark-side-of-the-net-20140607-39qe8.html Earlier this year when Garry met Sally, Garry was asked a simple question – ”How are you coping with the trolling?” He says it was a cathartic moment because he thought his campaign was the only one under attack. Garry…
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The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life
June 4, 2014, Andy Fleming, The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life, Overland, https://overland.org.au/2014/06/the-ups-and-downs-of-an-anonymous-anti-fascist-life/ I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was like balm to me, that idea. How lovely not to be stuck with yourself, to…
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More on freedom of speech: the case of Ben Garrison
April 30, 2014: Sarah AB, More on freedom of speech: the case of Ben Garrison, Harry’s place, http://hurryupharry.org/2014/04/30/more-on-freedom-of-speech-the-case-of-ben-garrison/ In this interesting post cartoonist Ben Garrison describes how his work was maliciously misappropriated by anti-Semites. He is associated with the Australian group OHPI (Online Hate Prevention Institute), and the piece appears on their site. I am well disposed towards…
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Facebook criticized for not stopping racism
December 10, 2013: Daniel Vergara, Facebook kritiseras för att inte stoppa rasism, Expo.se (Swedish media) (Translation: Facebook criticized for not stopping racism ), http://expo.se/2013/facebook-kritiseras-for-att-inte-stoppa-rasism_6298.html Racism directed against minority groups abound on Facebook. A report from the Online Hate Prevention Institute of Australia has mapped Islamophobia on Facebook. The report notes that the company is not acting against the…